Gender Pay Differences

Gender pay gap over time and by full/part-time roles

Within this report, a positive value indicates that men have greater median earnings than women, a negative value indicates that women have higher average earnings than men. All of the data is also nominal meaning it does not take into account inflation.

In 2014 the North East region and England had very similar gender pay gaps. Across all workers, the gender pay gap was almost £20 per week; c.£10 for full-time workers; and c.-£5 for part-time workers.

There has been a general convergence across the last nine years. Provisional data taken from April 2023 shows a £5 reduction in the weekly gross pay differences across the last two years for all workers in the North East from £16.0 in 2021 to £10.7 in 2023. England did not see this reduction in the gender pay gap.

There has been a slight reduction in the full-time worker gender pay gap in the North East and England. In the North East this gap dropped by £3.6 and in England it dropped by £1.

There was also a reduction in the part-time gender pay gap. Which rose from -£4.4 to -£3.8 in the North East and -£5.2 to -£2.7 in England between 2014 to 2023.

Gender Pay Gap across Constituencies and Occupations

Median weekly gender pay gaps vary dramatically between North East constituencies. In 2023, Gateshead had the lowest Gender pay gap at £2.3 (difference in weekly gross average income). The highest was Bishop Auckland at £25.2. None of the gender pay gaps were negative, meaning that in every constituency men had greater average earnings than women.

The second chart below shows the gender pay gaps in the North East in 2023 across different occupations. Skilled Trades Occupations and Corporate Managers and Directors had the highest pay gaps (men on average earned more). There were only three occupations where women earned more on average than men: Protective service occupations, Teaching and other educational professionals, and Business, media, and Public Service professionals.